Coming Out Stories

John Netter has been around soccer and heard all the comments. Now as an FC Buffalo coach, he hopes his coming out will inspire.

Landon Driggers is an all-American swimmer at the University of Tennessee who is now training for the Team USA Olympic Trials.

Rhett Hopkins and Sean Gitchell are two college athletes who found each other during a winter break. They are now in love.

A dynamic sophomore jump-started Bruin Pride Alliance and seeks to make it a piece of UCLA sports tradition.

Sean Gunn came out later in life. Now for the first time he publicly shares his story as a gay Olympian who competed at the NCAA level.

When Scott came out publicly in 2014, baseball showed him that he was welcome. Now he believes the major leagues will offer the same acceptance to their first woman umpire.

The New York Times featured the only out gay college coach in men's basketball. Here is his coming out story.

Ford McLiney found a lifeline when he read the story of gay Purdue swimmer Ryan Dafforn.

Jordan Rand quietly came out publicly using Instagram and some rainbows.

From Team USA to Dancing On Ice, Grafton has had a full career. Now he’s sharing his pride in who he is.

A decade after coming out, Thorpe opens up about his struggles and what it is to be a gay elite athlete.

Urban, once a youth international, is leading an LGBTQ initiative called “Sports Free” which he claims is being supported by Borussia Dortmund and other elite football clubs.

We chronicle our 25 most-read stories of the year, including some incredible highs and miserable lows.

Cornhuskers gymnast Samuel Phillips came out to his team as a freshman and has never looked back.

Schuyler Newberger was determined to prove people wrong who said she could never play college sports as a trans person. She is now thriving at Iona University.

Rogers is a trainer for the Kraken. He has been out on social media for years.

Ashley Carter achieved a personal milestone in Kona and acknowledged how courage is contagious as she thanked a recent Outsports interviewee.

The Springsteen-loving soccer official shared his story on the Football v Homophobia Podcast in the week of National Coming Out Day and wants to help other LGBTQ people in the game.

‘I had blinded myself out of fear of not being accepted into a community when the only person not accepting of me was myself,’ Mitchell Harjo writes.

After meeting when their teams played each other, Cole Philpott and Aiden Phipps sparked an incredible baseball romance.